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What Donald Trump will have to accept: without journalism, there is no Americahttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/18/american-media-journalism-donald-trump
<p>How American journalists should organize and fight in such a climate is a long and uncertain discussion. But they will fight a losing battle without the trust and support of the American public</p><ul><li>Support our independent journalism with <a href="https://contribute.theguardian.com/home?INTCMP=co_us_editorial_standfirst_USFacebookBias">a contribution</a> or by <a href="https://membership.theguardian.com/supporter?INTCMP=gdnwb_copts_editorial_mem_USFacebookBias_standfirst">becoming a member</a></li></ul><p>Six days after the presidential election, veteran reporter and anchor of PBS News Hour Gwen Ifill <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/postscript-gwen-ifill">died</a> at the age of 61. One of the greats in her industry, Ifill thrived on complexity and research rather than the sound of her own voice. During presidential election cycles, she focused on issues in voters’ lives rather than on the race to name a winner.</p><p>While accepting an award from the National Press Foundation in 2007, Ifill said she was often asked to defend her profession. “Journalism is about asking the questions, not assuming the answers,” Ifill told the crowd. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/18/american-media-journalism-donald-trump">Continue reading...</a>MediaKansasUS press and publishingCensorshipUS newsUS politicsNewspapersDonald TrumpFri, 18 Nov 2016 10:00:14 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/18/american-media-journalism-donald-trumpIllustration: Justin FrancavillaIllustration: Justin FrancavillaSarah Smarsh2016-11-18T10:00:14ZMadam President: how Newsweek reported a Clinton victoryhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/nov/10/if-only-donald-trump-had-come-second-eh-hillary
<p>Newsweek’s editor did what any sensible magazine chief would have done by preparing an issue based on a very different US presidential result... </p><p>It could all have been so different. Newsweek’s editor had obviously prepared issues for both possible US presidential election results, as is normal practice in such events.</p><p>Oddly, however, this one not only got published but also got distributed. About 125,000 copies had to be recalled, <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/09/national-recall-after-newsweek-misfires-with-clinton-cover/">reported the New York Post.</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/nov/10/if-only-donald-trump-had-come-second-eh-hillary">Continue reading...</a>MediaHillary ClintonUS elections 2016MagazinesDonald TrumpUS newsUS press and publishingUS politicsThu, 10 Nov 2016 11:23:04 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/nov/10/if-only-donald-trump-had-come-second-eh-hillaryPhotograph: TwitterPhotograph: TwitterRoy Greenslade2016-11-10T11:23:04ZRolling Stone 'Jackie' trial: university administrator awarded $3m for defamationhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/08/rolling-stone-jackie-trial-rape-university-administrator-awarded-3m-defamation
<p>Former associate dean of students Nicole Eramo wins case over discredited gang rape story that cast her as a villain</p><p>Jurors have awarded a University of Virginia administrator $3m for her portrayal in a now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine article about the school’s handling of a brutal gang rape a fraternity house.</p><p>The 10-member jury’s decision came after they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/04/rolling-stone-rape-story-lawsuit-ruling-sabrina-rubin-erdely">concluded on Friday that the magazine, its publisher and reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely were responsible for defamation</a>, with actual malice, of former associate dean of students Nicole Eramo in the 2014 story A Rape on Campus.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/08/rolling-stone-jackie-trial-rape-university-administrator-awarded-3m-defamation">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingVirginiaUS newsWorld newsMediaNewspapers & magazinesTue, 08 Nov 2016 02:17:09 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/08/rolling-stone-jackie-trial-rape-university-administrator-awarded-3m-defamationPhotograph: Ryan M. Kelly/APPhotograph: Ryan M. Kelly/APAssociated Press2016-11-08T02:17:09ZRolling Stone defamed university administrator in 'Jackie' story, jury findshttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/04/rolling-stone-rape-story-lawsuit-ruling-sabrina-rubin-erdely
<p>Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who wrote the discredited 2014 article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia, was also found guilty of libel with actual malice<br></p><p>A federal jury on Friday found Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator who sued them for $7.5m over a discredited story about gang rape at a fraternity house.</p><p>The 10-member jury in Charlottesville sided with administrator Nicole Eramo, who claimed the article portrayed her as a villain. Jurors found that journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely was responsible for libel, with actual malice, and that Rolling Stone and its publisher were also responsible for defaming Eramo.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/04/rolling-stone-rape-story-lawsuit-ruling-sabrina-rubin-erdely">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingMagazinesUS newsVirginiaMediaRape and sexual assaultFri, 04 Nov 2016 18:50:22 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/04/rolling-stone-rape-story-lawsuit-ruling-sabrina-rubin-erdelyPhotograph: Steve Helber/APPhotograph: Steve Helber/APAssociated Press2016-11-04T18:50:22ZRolling Stone defamation trial nears end as lawyers say facts of UVA case ignoredhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/02/rolling-stone-uva-defamation-trial-jackie
<p>Attorneys for former UVA dean say journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely had an agenda, while magazine argues everyone who spoke to ‘Jackie’ believed her</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/24/rolling-stone-defamation-trial-uva-jackie-testifies">Rolling Stone publisher says UVA rape article was not entirely retracted</a><br></li></ul><p>The defamation trial against Rolling Stone drew to a close on Tuesday, as attorneys clashed over whether the author of the magazine’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/29/rolling-stone-uva-rape-jann-wenner">discredited story of a gang rape</a> was an agenda-driven reporter or a dupe.</p><p>Before they adjourned, attorneys for the plaintiff excoriated Rolling Stone for willfully ignoring any facts that might have contradicted its preconceived notions of the story.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/02/rolling-stone-uva-defamation-trial-jackie">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingVirginiaMediaUS newsWed, 02 Nov 2016 15:11:27 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/02/rolling-stone-uva-defamation-trial-jackiePhotograph: Steve Helber/APPhotograph: Steve Helber/APMolly Redden and agencies2016-11-02T15:11:27ZMartin Baron: 'We took Donald Trump seriously from the beginning'https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/30/martin-baron-we-took-donald-trump-seriously-from-the-beginning
<p>The Washington Post’s executive editor on breaking Trump’s Access Hollywood hot mic moment and the surprising positives of working beside software engineers</p><p>The phone call that would, just hours later, inflict a highly damaging blow to Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions came through to Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold mid-morning on Friday 7 October. The source – a Snapchat-era “Deep Throat” – informed Fahrenthold, whose dogged <a draggable="true" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-retooled-his-charity-to-spend-other-peoples-money/2016/09/10/da8cce64-75df-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?tid=a_inl">exposure</a> of the operations of the Trump Foundation had so infuriated the billionaire, that they had some previously unaired video of Trump. Would he be interested in viewing it?</p><p>“David recognised immediately that [the footage] was explosive,” says the Post’s executive editor Martin Baron, “and the first task was to make sure it was authenticated, which he was able to do pretty quickly.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/30/martin-baron-we-took-donald-trump-seriously-from-the-beginning">Continue reading...</a>Washington PostUS press and publishingMediaNewspapersNewspapers & magazinesDonald TrumpUS newsUS politicsRepublicansBoston GlobeLos Angeles TimesNew York TimesJeff BezosSun, 30 Oct 2016 14:00:10 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/30/martin-baron-we-took-donald-trump-seriously-from-the-beginningPhotograph: Evelyn Hockstein for the GuardianPhotograph: Evelyn Hockstein for the GuardianJames Silver2016-10-30T14:00:10ZRolling Stone publisher says UVA rape article was not entirely retractedhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/29/rolling-stone-uva-rape-jann-wenner
<p>In lawsuit over discredited article, Jann Wenner says although ‘Jackie’s’ account was inaccurate, the rest of the story remained valid</p><p>Rolling Stone magazine publisher and co-founder Jann Wenner said in a video deposition that he disagreed with a top editor’s decision to retract an entire article about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, after the story was discredited.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/24/trump-sexual-misconduct-accusers-uva-rape-story-rolling-stone">UVA rape story trial highlights struggle to report on sexual assault in Trump era</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/29/rolling-stone-uva-rape-jann-wenner">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingVirginiaUS newsMediaSat, 29 Oct 2016 18:59:44 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/29/rolling-stone-uva-rape-jann-wennerPhotograph: Danny Moloshok/APPhotograph: Danny Moloshok/APAssociated Press2016-10-29T18:59:44Z'Jackie' testifies: Rolling Stone story was 'what I believed to be true at the time'https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/24/rolling-stone-defamation-trial-uva-jackie-testifies
<p>Deposition of UVA student featured in discredited article is heard publicly for first time as magazine faces defamation trial</p><p>The woman whose harrowing account of being gang-raped at the University of Virginia was the centerpiece of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/05/rolling-stone-uva-rape-story-columbia-school-journalism-review">now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine article</a> testified in a deposition heard by the public for the first time on Monday that the story was what she believed “to be true at the time”. <br></p><p> A video deposition of the woman identified in the article only as “Jackie” was played for jurors Monday in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/12/uva-rolling-stone-defamation-campus-rape-article">defamation trial against Rolling Stone magazine</a> for the 2014 article A Rape on Campus by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/20/rolling-stone-reporter-admits-mistakes-in-jackie-article">Sabrina Rubin Erdely</a>. University of Virginia administrator Nicole Eramo is seeking $7.5m from the magazine, claiming she was cast as the story’s “chief villain”. A police investigation later found no evidence to back up Jackie’s claims. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/24/rolling-stone-defamation-trial-uva-jackie-testifies">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingVirginiaUS universitiesMagazinesMediaMon, 24 Oct 2016 21:55:34 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/24/rolling-stone-defamation-trial-uva-jackie-testifiesPhotograph: Steve Helber/APPhotograph: Steve Helber/APAssociated Press in Charlottesville, Virginia2016-10-24T21:55:34ZNew York Times review pans series – but then admits critic saw it in wrong orderhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/22/new-york-times-review-pans-series-but-then-admits-critic-saw-it-in-wrong-order
<p>Newspaper issues correction to Mike Hale’s review of Goliath, which he called ‘needlessly complicated’ after inadvertently starting with episode two</p><p>The New York Times has issued a correction after its television writer panned a show for being confusing when he watched the first two episodes in the wrong order.</p><p>Mike Hale, the Times’ television critic, had criticised the “split personality” and “needlessly complicated structure” of the initial episodes of Amazon’s new legal drama Goliath.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/22/new-york-times-review-pans-series-but-then-admits-critic-saw-it-in-wrong-order">Continue reading...</a>MediaNew York TimesAmazon Prime VideoUS press and publishingBilly Bob ThorntonTelevision & radioTV streamingCultureSat, 22 Oct 2016 02:59:56 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/22/new-york-times-review-pans-series-but-then-admits-critic-saw-it-in-wrong-orderPhotograph: Credit Colleen E. Hayes/Amazon Prime VideoPhotograph: Credit Colleen E. Hayes/Amazon Prime VideoElle Hunt2016-10-22T02:59:56ZRolling Stone reporter admits she made mistakes in 'Jackie' rape storyhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/20/rolling-stone-reporter-admits-mistakes-in-jackie-article
<p>Sabrina Rubin Erdely takes stand in defamation trial and says she overlooked key details in process of reporting on alleged rape at the University of Virginia</p><p>The author of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/05/rolling-stone-uva-rape-story-columbia-school-journalism-review">now-retracted Rolling Stone article</a> about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia on Thursday acknowledged that she made mistakes while reporting the story of the woman identified only as Jackie. </p><p>Sabrina Rubin Erdely took the stand in the defamation trial against the magazine over its 2014 story. University administrator <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/12/uva-rolling-stone-defamation-campus-rape-article">Nicole Eramo is seeking $7.8m</a> from the magazine for its portrayal of her in the story. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/20/rolling-stone-reporter-admits-mistakes-in-jackie-article">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingVirginiaUS universitiesMagazinesMediaNewspapers & magazinesThu, 20 Oct 2016 19:52:44 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/20/rolling-stone-reporter-admits-mistakes-in-jackie-articlePhotograph: Ryan M. Kelly/APPhotograph: Ryan M. Kelly/APAssociated Press in Charlottesville, Virginia2016-10-20T19:52:44ZAbducted US journalist faces fifth Christmas in Syrian captivityhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/09/abducted-us-journalist-faces-fifth-christmas-in-syrian-captivity
<p>Press freedom group fights to raise awareness of the plight of war reporter Austin Tice who was detained by an unknown group in August 2012 </p><p>It is very doubtful that you have ever heard of Austin Tice. Yet he is a freelance journalist who has been held captive in Syria since August 2012.</p><p>Too little has been reported about a man who is on the verge of spending his fifth Christmas in the hands of unknown captors in an unknown location in a war-torn country. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/09/abducted-us-journalist-faces-fifth-christmas-in-syrian-captivity">Continue reading...</a>MediaSyriaWar reportingPress freedomUS newsWorld newsHuman rightsMiddle East and North AfricaWashington PostCBSBBCAssociated PressBashar al-AssadBarack ObamaFri, 09 Dec 2016 13:42:57 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/09/abducted-us-journalist-faces-fifth-christmas-in-syrian-captivityPhotograph: YouTubePhotograph: YouTubeRoy Greenslade2016-12-09T13:42:57ZWhy some papers kept quiet about Boris Johnson's row with Theresa Mayhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/09/why-some-papers-kept-quiet-about-boris-johnsons-row-with-theresa-may
<p>The Times, Sun, Mail and Express refused to attack either the prime minister or the foreign secretary at a time of such sensitivity over Brexit negotiations </p><p>News editors at BBC TV and ITV thought the Guardian’s revelation on Thursday of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/07/boris-johnson-accuses-saudi-arabia-of-twisting-and-abusing-islam">Boris Johnson’s statement about Saudi Arabia fighting a proxy war </a>merited big coverage on their bulletins.<br></p><p>Similarly, radio news editors on major talk stations gave the story top billing throughout the day, and into the evening, following the prime minister’s unprecedented <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/08/theresa-may-cuts-boris-johnson-adrift-ahead-of-his-visit-to-gulf">slapping down of her foreign secretary.</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/09/why-some-papers-kept-quiet-about-boris-johnsons-row-with-theresa-may">Continue reading...</a>MediaBoris JohnsonTheresa MayNational newspapersSaudi ArabiaPoliticsThe GuardianThe TimesDaily TelegraphThe SunDaily MailDaily ExpressDaily MirrorJeremy CorbynEmily ThornberryEU referendum and BrexitEuropean UnionUK newsForeign policyMiddle East and North AfricaNewspapersFri, 09 Dec 2016 10:45:24 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/09/why-some-papers-kept-quiet-about-boris-johnsons-row-with-theresa-mayPhotograph: ClipsharePhotograph: ClipshareRoy Greenslade2016-12-09T10:45:24Z'She doesn't get what we do': has ABC boss Michelle Guthrie got the insiders on her side?https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/she-doesnt-get-what-we-do-has-abc-boss-michelle-guthrie-got-the-insiders-on-her-side
<p>Despite an encouraging start, the former Murdoch and Google executive has drawn fire from staff angry at cuts, an allegedly detached leadership style and apparent lack of understanding of some of Aunty’s key values </p><p>At the Lowy Institute in August, the ABC managing director, Michelle Guthrie, praised Four Corners for its story on youth detention in the Northern Territory, singling out the investigative journalism program as one of the jewels in the public broadcasting crown.<br></p><p>“Investigations like the searing <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2016/07/25/4504895.htm">Australia’s Shame</a> put together by Caro Meldrum-Hanna and her team on Four Corners that prove the adage that real news is revealing what someone else is trying to keep secret,” <a href="https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/global-abc-%E2%80%93-address-michelle-guthrie-2016-lowy-institute-media-awards">she said in her keynote speech</a>.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/she-doesnt-get-what-we-do-has-abc-boss-michelle-guthrie-got-the-insiders-on-her-side">Continue reading...</a>Michelle GuthrieAustralian Broadcasting CorporationAustralian mediaAustralian televisionRadioMediaTelevisionFri, 09 Dec 2016 10:45:14 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/she-doesnt-get-what-we-do-has-abc-boss-michelle-guthrie-got-the-insiders-on-her-sidePhotograph: Lukas Coch/AAPPhotograph: Lukas Coch/AAPAmanda Meade2016-12-09T10:45:14ZBreitbart adverts pulled, Channel 4 row, Guardian to partner with Vicehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/breitbart-adverts-pulled-channel-4-row-guardian-partner-vice
<p>Our morning briefing highlights the big stories of the day, including BMW and other German firms’ boycott of rightwing website<br></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/08/breitbart-looks-to-france-and-germany-another-alt-right-victory-steve-bannon"><strong>German firms including BMW pull advertising from Breitbart</strong></a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/breitbart-adverts-pulled-channel-4-row-guardian-partner-vice">Continue reading...</a>MediaFri, 09 Dec 2016 09:24:09 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/breitbart-adverts-pulled-channel-4-row-guardian-partner-vicePhotograph: Evan Vucci/APPhotograph: Evan Vucci/APGuardian Staff2016-12-09T09:24:09ZPhotographer of the year – 2016 shortlist: Trump, refugees and the battle for Mosulhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2016/dec/09/agency-photographer-of-the-year-2016-shortlist-trump-refugees-and-the-battle-for-mosul
<p>Here are some of the best images that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/from-the-agencies">agency photographers</a> sent to the Guardian picture desk this year. The overall winner will be announced on 21 December</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2016/dec/09/agency-photographer-of-the-year-2016-shortlist-trump-refugees-and-the-battle-for-mosul">Continue reading...</a>News photographyWorld newsUK newsPhotographyNewspapers & magazinesMediaArt and designCultureFri, 09 Dec 2016 07:15:04 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2016/dec/09/agency-photographer-of-the-year-2016-shortlist-trump-refugees-and-the-battle-for-mosulComposite: VariousComposite: VariousJoanna Ruck and Matt Fidler2016-12-09T07:15:04ZNorwegian teen TV hit Shame to be remade for US viewershttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/norwegian-teen-tv-hit-shame-to-be-remade-for-us-viewers
<p>Pop Idol’s Simon Fuller will create version in English of hard-hitting social media drama that has won fans all over the world</p><p>Hit Scandinavian multimedia online youth drama Skam (Shame), which has gripped teens across the world, is to be remade for English-speaking audiences.</p><p>The Norwegian drama, which has loosely been likened to Channel 4’s popular teen-targeted series <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/skins">Skins</a>, has become a global digital hit, whose teenage fans have <a href="https://www.change.org/p/nrk-legg-til-teksting-p%C3%A5-skam-add-subtitles-to-skam?recruiter=639845192&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=copylink">petitioned the broadcaster to add English subtitles</a> for international fans.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/norwegian-teen-tv-hit-shame-to-be-remade-for-us-viewers">Continue reading...</a>Television industrySimon FullerNorwayTelevisionWorld newsSkinsCultureDramaEuropeMediaTelevision & radioFri, 09 Dec 2016 05:00:19 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/norwegian-teen-tv-hit-shame-to-be-remade-for-us-viewersPhotograph: NRKPhotograph: NRKMark Sweney2016-12-09T05:00:19ZJaws drop at ABC as Michelle Guthrie defends Radio National cuts | Weekly Beasthttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/jaws-drop-at-abc-as-michelle-guthrie-defends-radio-national-cuts
<p>ABC boss’s meet and greet turns sour. Plus word of compulsory redundancies at the Australian, and plans for new investment in Mamamia</p><p>Michelle Guthrie was in Perth last week to attend the opening of the new Screenwest office located on a vacant floor inside the ABC building. The ABC managing director welcomed the screen funding agency’s co-location, saying they were both in the business of making “exceptional content”. And later in the afternoon she held a meet and greet with some of the ABC people who make that exceptional content, at an informal gathering over a cup of tea with local radio, news and RN staffers. Guthrie inadvertently found herself sitting at a table with staff from Radio National, which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/16/radio-national-to-lose-eight-staff-as-abc-cuts-several-programs-from-2017-schedule">has been subjected to yet more cuts</a>.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/30/abc-bosses-morally-and-spiritually-bankrupt-for-axing-catalyst-rn-presenter-says">ABC bosses ‘morally and spiritually bankrupt’ for axing Catalyst, RN presenter says</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/jaws-drop-at-abc-as-michelle-guthrie-defends-radio-national-cuts">Continue reading...</a>Australian mediaMichelle GuthrieNewspapersAustralian Broadcasting CorporationNews CorporationRoyal commission into the protection and detention of children in the Northern TerritoryAustralia newsPerthMediaNewspapers & magazinesRadioThu, 08 Dec 2016 22:47:04 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/09/jaws-drop-at-abc-as-michelle-guthrie-defends-radio-national-cutsPhotograph: Paul Miller/AAPPhotograph: Paul Miller/AAPAmanda Meade2016-12-08T22:47:04ZBrighton Argus editor departs, but does Newsquest really care?https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/08/brighton-argus-editor-departs-but-does-newsquest-really-care
<p>Publisher refuses to explain why yet another of its editors, one respected by both his staff and his audience, has left the ailing newspaper</p><p>Mike Gilson, the best editor the Brighton Argus has had in many a long year, has left the newspaper in somewhat mysterious circustances.</p><p>Staff have not been informed why he has gone. The managing director of Newsquest Sussex, Tony Portelli, did not return a phone message. However, his personal assistant, who also acted as Gilson’s secretary, did confirm that he had departed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/08/brighton-argus-editor-departs-but-does-newsquest-really-care">Continue reading...</a>MediaNewsquestGannettBrightonRegional & local newspapersNewspapersUK newsMedia businessMedia downturnThu, 08 Dec 2016 16:29:58 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/08/brighton-argus-editor-departs-but-does-newsquest-really-carePhotograph: Murdo Macleod for the GuardianPhotograph: Murdo Macleod for the GuardianRoy Greenslade2016-12-08T16:29:58ZGerman firms including BMW pull advertising from Breitbarthttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/08/breitbart-looks-to-france-and-germany-another-alt-right-victory-steve-bannon
<p>Boycott comes as rightwing website plans to launch new services in France and Germany in time for pivotal 2017 elections</p><p>Major German companies including BMW have stopped advertising on Breitbart, the rightwing US news and opinion site that campaigned for Donald Trump and plans to launch in Europe before key elections next year.</p><p>The boycott, prompted by a social media campaign titled KeinGeldFürRechts or No Money for the Right, follows a similar decision by Kellogg’s in the US, to which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/30/breitbart-news-kelloggs-advertising-boycott-alt-right">Breitbart responded by urging readers</a> to stop buying the cereal firm’s products. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/08/breitbart-looks-to-france-and-germany-another-alt-right-victory-steve-bannon">Continue reading...</a>AdvertisingMediaThe far rightNewspapers & magazinesSteve BannonFranceWorld newsGermanyEuropeMarine Le PenDonald TrumpUS newsThu, 08 Dec 2016 13:51:40 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/08/breitbart-looks-to-france-and-germany-another-alt-right-victory-steve-bannonPhotograph: Evan Vucci/APPhotograph: Evan Vucci/APJon Henley and Philip Oltermann2016-12-08T13:51:40ZKelvin MacKenzie quit Sun after being 'kept in the dark' on phone hacking, court hearshttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/kelvin-mackenzie-quit-sun-after-being-kept-in-the-dark-on-phone-hacking-rebekah-brooks
<p>Email from then Sun columnist lambasting Rebekah Brooks and Dominic Mohan forms part of evidence in civil case against News Group Newspapers </p><p>Kelvin MacKenzie told the then News International boss, Rebekah Brooks, and Sun editor, Dominic Mohan, he was quitting as a columnist in 2011 because he thought they had kept the full extent of phone hacking from him, according to evidence presented as part of a civil case against the newspaper’s publisher on Thursday.<br></p><p>The email forms part of evidence presented on behalf of public figures and others suing News Group Newspapers, the News UK subsidiary that owns the Sun, over alleged phone hacking and other privacy intrusions.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/kelvin-mackenzie-quit-sun-after-being-kept-in-the-dark-on-phone-hacking-rebekah-brooks">Continue reading...</a>News UKKelvin MacKenziePhone hackingThe SunNews of the WorldNational newspapersNewspapersNewspapers & magazinesMediaPress intrusionThu, 08 Dec 2016 13:16:45 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/kelvin-mackenzie-quit-sun-after-being-kept-in-the-dark-on-phone-hacking-rebekah-brooksPhotograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesJasper Jackson2016-12-08T13:16:45ZSteve Bell on Trump as Time magazine's person of the year – cartoonhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/picture/2016/dec/07/steve-bell-time-magazine-person-of-the-year-donald-trump-cartoon
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/picture/2016/dec/07/steve-bell-time-magazine-person-of-the-year-donald-trump-cartoon">Continue reading...</a>Donald TrumpTime magazineMagazinesUS newsUS press and publishingWed, 07 Dec 2016 20:34:47 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/picture/2016/dec/07/steve-bell-time-magazine-person-of-the-year-donald-trump-cartoonIllustration: Steve BellIllustration: Steve BellSteve Bell2016-12-07T20:34:47ZIt’s all too easy for Trump to set the media a-twitterhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/27/trump-too-easy-to-set-media-atwitter-us-election
The sight of a president-elect stirring things up on social media is novel. But it’s a shame it’s so easy to set the press off on a wild goose chase<p>There are, as it happens, at least two kinds of fake news. The one that has become a dirge through the first days of Trump, simple fibs dressed up as facts on Facebook et al – and the more insidious fakery that no one seems to have rumbled yet: mindless news, empty news, news as transient as the latest tweet from the&nbsp;Donald.</p><p>British journalists who haven’t been concentrated on Trumpian tactics may, perhaps, be excused last week’s farce. But would any prime minister in her right mind make Nigel Farage – loosest of cannons, most lethal of preening enemies – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/22/nigel-farage-will-not-be-ambassador-to-us-say-no10-and-foreign-office-donald-trump" title="">ambassador to the United States</a>? It’s a joke, a non-starter. So why did a tweet from the president-elect seem to start it?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/27/trump-too-easy-to-set-media-atwitter-us-election">Continue reading...</a>NewspapersNewspapers & magazinesUS press and publishingNew York TimesDonald TrumpUS elections 2016MediaTwitterSun, 27 Nov 2016 07:00:54 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/27/trump-too-easy-to-set-media-atwitter-us-electionPhotograph: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty ImagesPeter Preston2016-11-27T07:00:54ZFacts will calm the fever of Trump’s triumphhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/20/calm-facts-will-cool-trump-triumph-fever
The president-elect thrived in the febrile atmosphere of the election. In the dark years ahead, journalists must trust in dispassionate truth<p>So, what happens to candle carriers through four coming years of darkness? Some distraught warriors – say <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/15/trump-win-bigotry-authoritarian-america" title="">Owen Jones in the <em>Guardian</em></a> – call for a “non-violent war of political attrition” against this “would-be tyrant … this billionaire plutocrat charlatan” called Donald. But if that seems a touch hyperactive, you can always use cash to underwrite truth.</p><p>Manhattan’s favourite Brummie comedian, John Oliver, made that precise connection as he contemplated the Trump hegemony last week. Fight back against fake news by subscribing (and boosting) real news sources. Donate to ProPublica, the investigative unit of American first choice. Pay good money for the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Washington Post</em> and other key barriers along Breitbart Way. Don’t just sit there and moan. Put your hands in your pockets.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/20/calm-facts-will-cool-trump-triumph-fever">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingDonald TrumpNewspapers & magazinesMediaUS newsSun, 20 Nov 2016 06:59:30 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/20/calm-facts-will-cool-trump-triumph-feverPhotograph: Zach Gibson/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Zach Gibson/Getty ImagesPeter Preston2016-11-20T06:59:30ZThe media didn’t see Trump coming. And even now, it doesn’t know whyhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/13/us-media-didnt-see-trump-coming-doesnt-know-why
The ‘big-city elite’ are full of remorse: but local editors of community papers across the US missed the story too<p>Seldom in media history have so many worked so hard – to wallow in angst. “I think it’s time for all journalists to turn our back on polls …” tweeted ITV’s anchor-of-the-night Tom Bradby, as he might well have done after June 2016 or May 2015 too. Yes: the polls were all over the place <em>again</em>, predictions based on them similarly frail. Again. Plentiful egg splattered innumerable august faces.</p><p>But if every debacle has one inevitable following mantra – the one about “lessons to be learned” – what are the lessons for journalists here? Before it happens. Again.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/13/us-media-didnt-see-trump-coming-doesnt-know-why">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingUS elections 2016Donald TrumpUS politicsNewspapersTelevision industryMediaNewspapers & magazinesSun, 13 Nov 2016 07:00:12 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/13/us-media-didnt-see-trump-coming-doesnt-know-whyPhotograph: Mark Lennihan/APPhotograph: Mark Lennihan/APPeter Preston2016-11-13T07:00:12ZNewspapers big and small are facing an existential crisishttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/nov/11/newspapers-big-and-small-are-facing-an-existential-crisis
<p>News Corporation and the CN Group are suffering from the same problem, declining newsprint advertising revenue, which imperils journalism’s future </p><p>What have the Wall Street Journal and the Eskdale &amp; Liddesdale Advertiser got in common? Or perhaps that question should be: what have the Journal’s owner, mighty News Corporation, and the Advertiser’s owner, the modest CN Group, got in common?<br></p><p>The Journal sells more than 1m copies a day in print while the Advertiser manages about 1,200 newsprint sales a week.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/nov/11/newspapers-big-and-small-are-facing-an-existential-crisis">Continue reading...</a>MediaNewspapersWall Street JournalAdvertisingNewspapers & magazinesCN GroupNews CorporationDigital mediaRegional & local newspapersMedia downturnThe GuardianTrinity MirrorJohnston PressGannettUS newsNational Union of JournalistsPublic service reportingGoogleFacebookScotlandUK newsUS press and publishingFri, 11 Nov 2016 11:36:22 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/nov/11/newspapers-big-and-small-are-facing-an-existential-crisisPhotograph: .Photograph: .Roy Greenslade2016-11-11T11:36:22ZA print publishing reality: advertisers, not readers, are the customershttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/24/a-print-publishing-reality-advertisers-not-readers-are-the-customers
<p>As Trinity Mirror closes another free title while bemoaning a lack of audience, a US newspaper owner tells it like it is: journalism is of secondary importance</p><p>Here’s a Trinity Mirror spokesperson <a href="http:///2016/news/fourth-newspaper-closure-announced-by-trinity-mirror-in-24-hours/">commenting its latest local paper closure</a>: “We focus on markets where we are able to grow audience and revenue. It’s for this reason we’ve been forced to close free weekly, the Crawley News and its website”.<br></p><p>Not a startling revelation: we know that advertising has been retreating from newsprint for years, although the shuttering of the website is surprising.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/24/a-print-publishing-reality-advertisers-not-readers-are-the-customers">Continue reading...</a>MediaNewspapersAdvertisingTrinity MirrorUS press and publishingThe TimesMedia businessMedia downturnNational newspapersRegional & local newspapersUS newsTexasArizonaNewspapers & magazinesMon, 24 Oct 2016 09:00:50 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/24/a-print-publishing-reality-advertisers-not-readers-are-the-customersPhotograph: Trinity MirrorPhotograph: Trinity MirrorRoy Greenslade2016-10-24T09:00:50ZThe reporters fighting for journalism against ‘templated specific content’https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/23/reporters-fighting-journalism-against-templated-specific-content-gannett-us
The business plans of US commercial owners make grim reading for local editors under pressure from big media chains<p>Real numbers have been crunching in public these last few days. The gallant editor of the <em>Oldham Evening Chronicle</em>, on stage at the Society of Editors conference, remembers the days when his paper (all departments included) employed some 250 people. Now that’s shrunk to 40 – including just 17 journalists – plus long-distance subbing from Newport, 185 miles down the M6.</p><p>Meanwhile that<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/11/gannett-hovers-richmond-newsquest-dimblebys" title=""> journalists’ strike against yet more cuts</a> – 12 reporters providing all copy for 11 papers and eight websites – ratchets on in south-west London, with Newsquest managers citing “the need to reduce our cost base to ensure a sustainable future”. But how sustainable is journalism itself in such straitened circumstances?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/23/reporters-fighting-journalism-against-templated-specific-content-gannett-us">Continue reading...</a>Regional & local newspapersUS press and publishingGannettNewspapersNewspapers & magazinesMediaSun, 23 Oct 2016 06:00:38 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/23/reporters-fighting-journalism-against-templated-specific-content-gannett-usPhotograph: Richard Drew/APPhotograph: Richard Drew/APPeter Preston2016-10-23T06:00:38ZBack to the future: were newspaper publishers wrong to go digital?https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/19/back-to-the-future-were-newspaper-publishers-wrong-to-go-digital
<p>Leading US commentator asks: what if the entire industry made a business blunder by putting news up online for free while ignoring their print product? </p><p>“What if”, <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/newspapers-digital-first-214363">asks Jack Shafer</a>, “almost the entire newspaper industry got it wrong? What if, in the mad dash to put up editorial content on to the web, editors and publishers made a colossal business blunder that wasted hundreds of millions of dollars?”</p><p>He continues: “What if the industry should have stuck with its strengths — the print editions where the vast majority of their readers still reside and where the overwhelming majority of advertising and subscription revenue come from — instead of chasing the online chimera?”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/19/back-to-the-future-were-newspaper-publishers-wrong-to-go-digital">Continue reading...</a>MediaNewspapersUS press and publishingDigital mediaUS newsNewspapers & magazinesWed, 19 Oct 2016 12:52:28 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/19/back-to-the-future-were-newspaper-publishers-wrong-to-go-digitalPhotograph: Christopher Meder/Getty Images/iStockphotoPhotograph: Christopher Meder/Getty Images/iStockphotoRoy Greenslade2016-10-19T12:52:28ZThe reviewer who tried to trump all Hitler comparisons | Emma Brockeshttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/06/reviewer-trump-hitler-new-york-times-michiko-akutani
Mendacious, half-insane, an egomaniac, a demagogue – that’s what they said about the Nazi leader in the 1930s, before his election. Remind you of anyone?<p>Book reviews tend to make news only if they are particularly savage or concern a hotly anticipated book. So Hitler, by Volker Ullrich – the umpteenth biography of the dictator, translated from the German and published in America this month – would seem an unlikely candidate. Last week, however, Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ chief book critic, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/books/hitler-ascent-volker-ullrich.html?_r=0" title="">did something extraordinary</a>: without ever making it explicit, she wrote an entire review about something, or rather someone, else.</p><p>From the opening paragraph – in which Kakutani cites an eminent magazine editor in 1930 describing Hitler as a “half-insane rascal”, a “pathetic dunderhead”, a “nowhere fool” and a “big mouth” – one can start to guess the direction she’s looking in.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/06/reviewer-trump-hitler-new-york-times-michiko-akutani">Continue reading...</a>BooksAdolf HitlerWorld newsDonald TrumpUS newsUS politicsNew York TimesNewspapersNewspapers & magazinesUS press and publishingMediaCultureThu, 06 Oct 2016 16:42:54 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/06/reviewer-trump-hitler-new-york-times-michiko-akutaniPhotograph: British Pathe PLC/PA/British Pathe PLCPhotograph: British Pathe PLC/PA/British Pathe PLCEmma Brockes2016-10-06T16:42:54ZUS newspapers hit back as Huff Po and co run out of steamhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/18/us-newspapers-strike-back-huffington-post-digital
Statistics show print resilience is strong in press and book publishing, as many Americans still prefer to settle down with a book not an e-reader<p>It’s been a pretty static summer on the circulation and readership front. Quality papers – in print and online – doing well in the referendum aftermath, with the tabloids staging a modest August recovery. But there’s one fascinating result being celebrated by traditional US news hawks. For the first time in modern digital history (as recorded by comScore over July), the <em>New York Times</em> and the <em>Washington Post </em>both beat starry startups BuzzFeed and the <em>Huffington Post</em>. The <em>Times</em> and <em>Post </em>were up 41% and 54% year-on-year – while the opposition dropped back.</p><p>As Ken Doctor at the Nieman Journalism Lab notes, it’s not just a question of readers wanting their news from sturdier, familiar sources in the eye of a presidential election storm. There’s the question of if and when shooting stars begin to wane. “Has the <em>Huffington Post</em>, which shed 12m unique visitors in just a year – and a time of incredible political ferment – peaked? After all, it was born at another digital time, 2005 … a business/editorial model of aggregation ahead of its time.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/18/us-newspapers-strike-back-huffington-post-digital">Continue reading...</a>US press and publishingNew York TimesMediaNewspapersHuffington PostE-readersBusinessBuzzFeedWashington PostNewspapers & magazinesSun, 18 Sep 2016 06:00:09 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/18/us-newspapers-strike-back-huffington-post-digitalPhotograph: Denis Balibouse/ReutersPhotograph: Denis Balibouse/ReutersPeter Preston2016-09-18T06:00:09ZHow a Polish ad out-Christmased John Lewis's bouncing badgerhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2016/dec/07/how-a-polish-ad-out-christmased-john-lewiss-bouncing-badger
<p>An advert for an auction site sees a grandfather learning English to introduce himself to his granddaughter in the UK. Even Brexit Britain has taken this EU migrants’ tale to its heart </p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/nov/10/john-lewis-christmas-advert-buster-the-bouncing-dog-a-sledgehammer-to-2016">John Lewis advert</a> might be the most heavily trailed. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/28/come-together-review-wes-anderson-h-and-m-christmas-ad-adrien-brody">Wes Anderson’s H&amp;M commercial</a>, the most stylish. Then Amazon got into the spirit of the Christmas ad wars with an interfaith focus on an imam and a vicar exchanging Christmas gifts. But none of these Christmas commercials have had the quiet charm of this year’s sleeper hit from Allegro, an online auction website in Poland, which doesn’t even sell products in the UK.</p><p>The ad’s premise is simple: an elderly Polish man who is beginning to learn English. Shot with the gentle nostalgia of a Werther’s Original ad, we see him wading through an “English for Beginners” set. First he painstakingly labels everything in his house – including his dog – with Post-it notes with English translations. Then he carefully studies the dialogue from English-language movies (“I’m going to fucking kill you”, he doggedly repeats). Headphones on, he continues intoning English phrases on the bus, unaware of a young woman who hears him repeating, “I love you, you are perfect.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2016/dec/07/how-a-polish-ad-out-christmased-john-lewiss-bouncing-badger">Continue reading...</a>AdvertisingChristmasPolandLife and styleMediaWed, 07 Dec 2016 14:30:03 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2016/dec/07/how-a-polish-ad-out-christmased-john-lewiss-bouncing-badgerPhotograph: AllegroPhotograph: AllegroHoma Khaleeli2016-12-07T14:30:03ZGuardian announces partnership with Vicehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/guardian-announces-partnership-with-vice
<p>Team of Guardian journalists will work at Vice’s offices in east London and contribute to the US TV network HBO</p><p>The Guardian is to join up with Vice as part of a content partnership which will include reports that will air on its nightly news programme in the US and UK.</p><p>The deal, the first of its kind that Vice News has struck with another news organisation, will see a small team of Guardian journalists based at Vice’s offices in east London.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/guardian-announces-partnership-with-vice">Continue reading...</a>The GuardianVice MediaMediaNational newspapersNewspapersNewspapers & magazinesUK newsThe news on TVTelevisionTelevision & radioCultureThu, 08 Dec 2016 13:00:00 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/guardian-announces-partnership-with-vicePhotograph: David Levene for the GuardianPhotograph: David Levene for the GuardianMark Sweney2016-12-08T13:00:00ZJulian Assange defies Swedish prosecutors by releasing rape statementhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/julian-assange-defies-swedish-prosecutors-by-releasing-statement
<p>WikiLeaks founder publishes answers he gave during questioning in Ecuador’s London embassy over rape allegation</p><p><a draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/julian-assange">Julian Assange</a> has thumbed his nose at Swedish investigators, who he says have robbed him of his freedom for six years, by releasing the answers he gave to them under questioning in Ecuador’s London embassy last month.</p><p>The decision to issue the statement, which contains for the first time a detailed account by the WikiLeaks founder of his encounter with a woman in August 2010 who made rape allegations against him, marks a fresh twist in a case in which Assange claims an early leak of information from the Swedish police has shaped opinion.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/julian-assange-defies-swedish-prosecutors-by-releasing-statement">Continue reading...</a>Julian AssangeUK newsWikiLeaksSwedenEuropeMediaWorld newsWed, 07 Dec 2016 10:59:11 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/julian-assange-defies-swedish-prosecutors-by-releasing-statementPhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAPhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PADavid Crouch in Gothenburg2016-12-07T10:59:11ZAndrew Marr to undergo 'controversial' US stroke treatmenthttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/andrew-marr-to-undergo-controversial-us-stroke-treatment
<p>Broadcaster, who is semi-paralysed on one side, to have drug injected into spine, despite warning over its use</p><p>The broadcaster Andrew Marr is to be injected with drugs in the spine while hanging upside down in a Florida clinic in a “controversial” technique that he hopes will help him recover from a stroke he suffered almost four years ago.</p><p>Marr said the treatment, which is known to cost several thousand dollars, would be “my Christmas present to myself”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/andrew-marr-to-undergo-controversial-us-stroke-treatment">Continue reading...</a>Andrew MarrMediaUK newsBBCThu, 08 Dec 2016 10:54:10 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/andrew-marr-to-undergo-controversial-us-stroke-treatmentPhotograph: Darran Rees/BBCPhotograph: Darran Rees/BBCMatthew Weaver2016-12-08T10:54:10ZTop women in arts seek explanation for veto of Channel 4 candidatehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/bonnie-greer-tessa-jowell-explanation-veto-channel-4-candidate-althea-efunshile
<p>Bonnie Greer, Tessa Jowell and Valerie Amos demand to know why government blocked Althea Efunshile from board</p><p>A dozen of the most respected female figures in the arts and creative industries, including Bonnie Greer, the former culture secretary Tessa Jowell, Valerie Amos and Gail Rebuck, the chair of the book publisher Penguin Random House UK, have called on the government to explain its decision to <a draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/29/bme-woman-blocked-from-channel-4-board-as-four-white-men-join">block the appointment of Althea Efunshile</a> to the board of Channel 4.</p><p>The group – which also includes the former Arts Council England chairwomen Liz Forgan and Sue Woodford-Hollick, as well as the broadcaster and former BFI chair Joan Bakewell – have signed a letter to the culture secretary, Karen Bradley, demanding to know the circumstances behind the decision to reject Efunshile.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/bonnie-greer-tessa-jowell-explanation-veto-channel-4-candidate-althea-efunshile">Continue reading...</a>Channel 4Women in the boardroomGenderRace issuesBusinessMediaTelevision industryUK newsThu, 08 Dec 2016 10:53:03 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/08/bonnie-greer-tessa-jowell-explanation-veto-channel-4-candidate-althea-efunshileComposite: GuardianComposite: GuardianMark Sweney2016-12-08T10:53:03ZMind your language: is there too much swearing in the Guardian?https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2010/apr/14/swearing-guardian
The people we write about seem to be swearing more and more. Our rivals opt for asterisks, but we tell you what they said. Are we right?<p>Today's blogpost could be renamed Mind Your Bad Language – and if you do mind it, I suggest you look away now. Put bluntly: are there too many fucks in the Guardian?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2010/apr/14/swearing-guardian">Continue reading...</a>LanguageScienceMediaWritten languageWed, 14 Apr 2010 14:51:27 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2010/apr/14/swearing-guardianPhotograph: GuardianSwearing in the Guardian. Illustration by David AustinPhotograph: GuardianSwearing in the Guardian. Illustration by David AustinDavid Marsh2010-04-14T14:51:27ZPhillip Knightley obituaryhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/phillip-knightley-obituary
Journalist behind some of the Sunday Times’s greatest investigations<p>Phillip Knightley, who has died aged 87, was one of the most accomplished reporters of his generation: his craftsmanship underpinned some of the 20th-century’s most memorable newspaper scoops and campaigns. He made a crucial contribution to the Sunday Times’s thalidomide exposé; revealed how the world’s biggest meat retailers, the Vestey family, had avoided taxation for six decades; and shed new light on problematic figures such as Lawrence of Arabia and the spy Kim Philby, with whom he corresponded for 20 years.</p><p>He tempered an omnivorous curiosity with a resilient scepticism – not least about his own trade of journalism, which he came to see was greatly overrated as a force for change. His truth-seeking had full play in his 1975 book The First Casualty, an account of the mendacity and myth-making of war correspondents, beginning in Crimea, but it did not in the end prevent the Sunday Times publishing the hoax Hitler diaries, when his caution went disregarded.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/phillip-knightley-obituary">Continue reading...</a>Sunday TimesNewspapersNational newspapersNewspapers & magazinesMediaThalidomideWed, 07 Dec 2016 18:41:18 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/phillip-knightley-obituaryPhotograph: David Levenson/Getty ImagesPhotograph: David Levenson/Getty ImagesIan Jack2016-12-07T18:41:18ZFleet Street hacks celebrate old times in long lunch shockerhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/08/fleet-street-hacks-celebrate-old-times-in-long-lunch-shocker
<p>Drinks flow along with the memories at the London Press Club’s event to mark the end of journalism on ‘the boulevard of broken dreams’ </p><p>Imagine veteran journalists in a pub with time on their hands, old friends and rivals to prompt countless memories... and as much free drink as they could handle.</p><p>No wonder the London Press Club’s staging of <a href="http://londonpressclub.co.uk/long-live-the-long-lunch/">a Long Lunch in Fleet Street</a> last Friday was a resounding success. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/08/fleet-street-hacks-celebrate-old-times-in-long-lunch-shocker">Continue reading...</a>MediaNewspapersDaily ExpressDaily MirrorLondonNational newspapersNewspapers & magazinesUK newsThe PeopleLondon Evening StandardSunday MirrorSunday ExpressThe SunThe IndependentThe TimesThu, 08 Dec 2016 11:30:57 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/dec/08/fleet-street-hacks-celebrate-old-times-in-long-lunch-shockerPhotograph: John DalePhotograph: John DaleRoy Greenslade2016-12-08T11:30:57ZNews is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happierhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. The solution? Stop consuming it altogether<p>In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of&nbsp;trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking. That's why we experience almost no saturation. Unlike reading books and long magazine articles (which require thinking), we can swallow limitless quantities of news flashes, which are bright-coloured candies for the mind. Today, we have reached the same point in relation to information that we faced 20 years ago in regard to food. We are beginning to recognise how&nbsp;toxic news can be.</p><p><strong>News misleads.</strong> Take the following event (borrowed from Nassim Taleb). A&nbsp;car drives over a bridge, and the bridge collapses. What does the news media focus on? The car. The person in the car. Where he came from. Where he planned to go. How he experienced the crash (if he survived). But that is all irrelevant. What's relevant? The structural stability of the bridge. That's the underlying risk that has been lurking, and could lurk in other bridges. But the car is flashy, it's dramatic, it's a&nbsp;person (non-abstract), and it's news that's cheap to produce. News leads us to walk around with the completely wrong risk map in our heads. So terrorism is over-rated. Chronic stress is under-rated. The collapse of Lehman Brothers is overrated. Fiscal irresponsibility is under-rated. Astronauts are over-rated. Nurses are under-rated.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli">Continue reading...</a>MediaNewspapersInternetTechnologyNewspapers & magazinesNews agenciesFri, 12 Apr 2013 19:00:01 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelliPhotograph: Guardian/GraphicOut of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life, asks Rolf Dobelli. Photograph: Guardian/GraphicPhotograph: Guardian/GraphicOut of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life, asks Rolf Dobelli. Photograph: Guardian/GraphicRolf Dobelli2013-04-12T19:00:01ZJeremy Clarkson dropped by BBC after damning report into attack on producerhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/25/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-contract-bbc
<p>Presenter could face police investigation after corporation’s inquiry describes ‘unprovoked physical and verbal attack’</p><p>The BBC announced on Wednesday that it has dropped Jeremy Clarkson after the Top Gear presenter was responsible for an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack” that left a colleague bleeding and seeking hospital treatment.</p><p>BBC director general Tony Hall said he took the decision to end Clarkson’s BBC career “with great regret”, 16 days after he was suspended following a “fracas” with a member of the Top Gear production team, but said the presenter had “crossed a line”.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/25/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-contract-bbc">Continue reading...</a>Jeremy ClarksonBBCMediaTop GearTelevisionUK newsTelevision industryTelevision & radioCultureTony HallWed, 25 Mar 2015 14:10:30 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/25/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-contract-bbcPhotograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersPhotograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersJohn Plunkett and Tara Conlan2015-03-25T14:10:30ZLawyer condemns Julian Assange over statement on rape casehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/lawyer-condemns-julian-assange-over-statement-on-case
<p>Elisabeth Massi Fritz says Assange’s decision to release statement detailing his relationship with accuser is ‘unfortunate’</p><p>A lawyer acting for the woman who made rape allegations against Julian Assange has accused him of “violating” her client in the media, after the WikiLeaks founder <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/julian-assange-defies-swedish-prosecutors-by-releasing-statement">released a statement</a> detailing answers he gave to Swedish investigators.</p><p>Assange on Wednesday thumbed his nose at Swedish officials, who he says have robbed him of his freedom for six years, by releasing the answers he gave to them under questioning at Ecuador’s London embassy last month.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/lawyer-condemns-julian-assange-over-statement-on-case">Continue reading...</a>Julian AssangeSwedenUK newsEuropeMediaWorld newsWed, 07 Dec 2016 18:58:02 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/lawyer-condemns-julian-assange-over-statement-on-casePhotograph: Jack Taylor/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Jack Taylor/AFP/Getty ImagesDavid Crouch in Gothenburg and Esther Addley in London2016-12-07T18:58:02ZBlocking of Althea Efunshile from C4 board 'beggars belief', says MPhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/blocking-of-althea-efunshile-from-c4-board-beggars-belief
<p>David Lammy criticises decision to stop black woman joining all-white board and calls for reasons to be made clear</p><p>The former culture minister David Lammy has said the decision <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/05/black-woman-althea-efunshile-channel-4-rejected-ex-arts-council">to block the appointment of a black woman to the all-white board of Channel 4</a> “beggars belief” and has called for the precise reasons to be revealed.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/users/althea-efunshile">former deputy chief executive of Arts Council England Althea Efunshile </a>was informed last week that her appointment had been blocked by the secretary of state, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jul/14/is-there-more-to-karen-bradley-than-a-love-of-fiction-culture-minister">Karen Bradley</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/blocking-of-althea-efunshile-from-c4-board-beggars-belief">Continue reading...</a>Channel 4Arts Council EnglandCultureMediaTelevision industryRace issuesDavid LammyPoliticsUK newsEqualitySocietyWed, 07 Dec 2016 17:31:12 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/07/blocking-of-althea-efunshile-from-c4-board-beggars-beliefPhotograph: Philippa Gedge/Phillipa Gedge / Arts CouncilPhotograph: Philippa Gedge/Phillipa Gedge / Arts CouncilMark Brown, Charlotte Higgins and Mark Sweney2016-12-07T17:31:12ZFirst Contact on SBS: meet the participants – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/30/first-contact-sbs-trailer-ray-martin-video
<p>Hosted by Ray Martin, First Contact follows Natalie Imbruglia, Tom Ballard, Ian Dickson, Nicki Wendt, Renae Ayris and David Oldfield as they come face to face with Indigenous Australia. <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/nov/29/my-experience-on-first-contact-challenged-everything-i-knew-about-indigenous-australia">• Tom Ballard: My experience on First Contact challenged everything I knew about Indigenous Australia</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/30/first-contact-sbs-trailer-ray-martin-video">Continue reading...</a>SBSCultureIndigenous AustraliansAustralian mediaAustralia newsIndigenous peoplesTue, 29 Nov 2016 21:45:54 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/30/first-contact-sbs-trailer-ray-martin-videoPhotograph: SBSPhotograph: SBSGuardian Staff2016-11-29T21:45:54ZThe banned Heinz Beanz's Can Song advert – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/23/banned-heinz-beanz-can-song-advert-video
<p>A Heinz TV advert teaching viewers how to use cans of its baked beans to drum out a song has been banned for being dangerous for children to copy. Nine viewers lodged complaints with the Advertising Standards Authority that the advert encouraged unsafe practice</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/23/banned-heinz-beanz-can-song-advert-video">Continue reading...</a>AdvertisingConsumer affairsMediaAdvertising Standards AuthorityWed, 23 Nov 2016 00:01:49 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/23/banned-heinz-beanz-can-song-advert-videoPhotograph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK9p7DZcEqkPhotograph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK9p7DZcEqkGuardian Staff2016-11-23T00:01:49ZBarack Obama: fake news is a threat to democracy – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/18/barack-obama-fake-news-is-a-threat-to-democracy-video
<p>US president Barack Obama denounces the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected. Speaking in Berlin after meeting German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday, Obama says a lack of respect for facts and the truth was a threat to democracy</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/17/barack-obama-fake-news-facebook-social-media">Barack Obama on fake news: ‘We have problems’ if we can’t tell the difference</a><br></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/18/barack-obama-fake-news-is-a-threat-to-democracy-video">Continue reading...</a>Social mediaAngela MerkelBarack ObamaDigital mediaMediaUS newsWorld newsFacebookSocial networkingFri, 18 Nov 2016 08:49:10 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/18/barack-obama-fake-news-is-a-threat-to-democracy-videoPhotograph: Carsten Koall/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Carsten Koall/Getty ImagesGuardian Staff2016-11-18T08:49:10ZAndrew Marr defends Remembrance Sunday interview with Le Pen – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/13/andrew-marr-defends-le-pen-remembrance-sunday-bbc-marine-interview-bbc-video
<p>The BBC presenter says he understands some people are ‘offended and upset’ that <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08398yg/the-andrew-marr-show-13112016">the interview </a>with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is broadcast on Remembrance Sunday. He adds that failing to report on the challenge that she and Donald Trump pose to western security would not honour those killed in the historic fight against fascism</p><ul><li>Read: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/13/andrew-marr-defends-remembrance-sunday-marine-le-pen-interview-french-far-right-bbc">Andrew Marr defends Remembrance Sunday Marine Le Pen interview</a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/13/andrew-marr-defends-le-pen-remembrance-sunday-bbc-marine-interview-bbc-video">Continue reading...</a>Andrew MarrMarine Le PenThe far rightRemembrance DayFranceEuropeWorld newsBBCSun, 13 Nov 2016 16:30:28 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/13/andrew-marr-defends-le-pen-remembrance-sunday-bbc-marine-interview-bbc-videoPhotograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/ReutersPhotograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/ReutersGuardian Staff2016-11-13T16:30:28ZStudent’s fake John Lewis Christmas advert is runaway hit – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/06/fake-john-lewis-christmas-advert-student-video
<p>An A-level student who created a spoof John Lewis Christmas advert as part of his coursework has attracted hundreds of thousands of fans after <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kuNB-exddM">the video was posted on YouTube</a>. Bearing all the hallmarks of the traditional tear-jerker from the British department store, Nick Jablonka’s advert, titled The Snowglobe, has led to many viewers calling for him to be hired by the company</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/06/festive-fake-viewers-fooled-by-students-john-lewis-christmas-ad">Festive fake: viewers fooled by student’s John Lewis Christmas ad</a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/06/fake-john-lewis-christmas-advert-student-video">Continue reading...</a>Christmas adsUK newsJohn LewisMediaBusinessSun, 06 Nov 2016 21:02:30 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/nov/06/fake-john-lewis-christmas-advert-student-videoPhotograph: John LewisPhotograph: John LewisGuardian Staff2016-11-06T21:02:30ZBBC Breakfast mixes up Nicola Sturgeon and Kumbuka the gorilla – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/oct/14/bbc-breakfast-mix-up-nicola-sturgeon-kumbuka-gorilla-video
<p>BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty tells viewers on Friday they would be joined by Nicola Sturgeon later in the show, when production staff cut to footage of Kumbuka, the gorilla who escaped from a London zoo enclosure yesterday. Munchetty’s co-host Charlie Stayt apologises after the live gaffe leaves her unable to keep a straight face</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/oct/14/bbc-breakfast-mix-up-nicola-sturgeon-kumbuka-gorilla-video">Continue reading...</a>BBCMediaUK newsFri, 14 Oct 2016 11:10:24 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/oct/14/bbc-breakfast-mix-up-nicola-sturgeon-kumbuka-gorilla-videoPhotograph: BBC BreakfastPhotograph: BBC BreakfastGuardian Staff2016-10-14T11:10:24ZEamonn Holmes cut off mid-sentence by Sky News as he says goodbye – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/oct/13/eamonn-holmes-cut-off-mid-sentence-sky-news-says-goodbye-video
<p>Eamonn Holmes is cut off by Sky News as he signs off during the his final Sunrise breakfast show on Thursday. The presenter was being hugged by co-presenters Nazaneen Ghaffar, Isabel Lang and Jacquie Beltrao when the broadcast suddenly cut out </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/oct/13/eamonn-holmes-cut-off-mid-sentence-sky-news-says-goodbye-video">Continue reading...</a>Sky NewsUK newsTV newsTelevision industryMediaThu, 13 Oct 2016 12:10:17 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/oct/13/eamonn-holmes-cut-off-mid-sentence-sky-news-says-goodbye-videoPhotograph: Sky NewsPhotograph: Sky NewsGuardian Staff2016-10-13T12:10:17ZClementine Ford clashes with Sharri Markson on the Drum – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/sep/30/clementine-ford-sharri-markson-the-drum-video
<p>Journalist Markson calls the feminist author a ‘troll’ on the ABC’s discussion program after Ford criticises anti-women comments by News Corp columnist Tim Blair and remarks by Miranda Devine about homophobic abuse. Asked by the Drum host Julia Baird about her online demeanour, Ford says she goes after people only when they have said something abusive to her or to someone else. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/australia-books-blog/2016/sep/28/clementine-ford-theres-something-really-toxic-with-the-way-men-bond-in-australia">Clementine Ford: there’s something toxic about the way men bond in Australia</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/sep/30/clementine-ford-sharri-markson-the-drum-video">Continue reading...</a>Social mediaFeminismAustralia newsFri, 30 Sep 2016 02:56:27 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/sep/30/clementine-ford-sharri-markson-the-drum-videoPhotograph: ABC/The DrumPhotograph: ABC/The DrumGuardian Staff2016-09-30T02:56:27ZAssange 'annoyed' with Swedish appeal court decision - videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/sep/16/assange-annoyed-with-swedish-appeal-court-decision-video
<p> Julian Assange’s lawyer Per Samuelsson speaks in Malmö, Sweden on Friday after Stockholm’s appeal court upheld his arrest warrant. The WikiLeaks founder is wanted by Swedish authorities for questioning over allegations that he committed rape in 2010. Assange denies the allegations. He has been avoiding possible extradition to Sweden by taking refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy since 2012</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/16/swedish-court-upholds-julian-assange-arrest-warrant">Swedish court upholds Julian Assange arrest warrant</a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/sep/16/assange-annoyed-with-swedish-appeal-court-decision-video">Continue reading...</a>Julian AssangeWikiLeaksUK newsSwedenEuropeMediaWorld newsAmericasEcuadorFri, 16 Sep 2016 14:04:09 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/sep/16/assange-annoyed-with-swedish-appeal-court-decision-videoPhotograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ImagesGuardian Staff2016-09-16T14:04:09ZAd Break: Bonds, McDonald's, Subaru, Nike – videohttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/aug/31/ad-break-bonds-mcdonalds-subaru-nike-video
<p>First up in an interesting quartet of adverts is a tongue-in-cheek look at the trials of fatherhood from Australian underwear brand Bonds. It’s followed by a French commercial for McDonald’s examining an actor with a questionable method; the tale of ‘The Boy Who Breaks Everything’ for Subaru in the US and another addition to Nike’s super campaign featuring Oscar Isaac in the voiceover booth</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/aug/31/ad-break-bonds-mcdonalds-subaru-nike-video">Continue reading...</a>AdvertisingMediaWed, 31 Aug 2016 11:31:46 GMThttps://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2016/aug/31/ad-break-bonds-mcdonalds-subaru-nike-videoPhotograph: NikePhotograph: NikeGuardian Staff2016-08-31T11:31:46Z